Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-21
ISLAND POND VERMONT, JANUARY 81, 1887.

lee. And Christ says TO the angels who
have brought each a crown for the glorifed
invalid: mo, not these; they are not good
enough. But in the leweled vase at the
right hand side of my throne there Is one
that have been preparing for her many a
year, and for her every pang have set an
amethyst, and for her every good deed |
have set pearl Fetch it now and fulfill
the promise gave her long ago in the sick
room: BE thou faithful unto death, and ]
will give thee crown.'p
But notice that there is only one being in
the universe who can and will distribute the
trophies of earth and heaven. 1t is the Di-
vine Warrior, the Commander-in-C Chief of
the centuries the champion of ages, the uni
versal conqueror, the Son of God, Jesus. You
will take the spoils from His hand, or never
take them at all Have His friendship anG
you may defy all time and all eter-
nifty, but without it you are a pau
per, though you had a universe at your
command. We are told in Revelation that
Jacobs twelve sons were so honored as to
have the twele gates of Heaven name1 after
them-over one gate of Heaven Naphtali,
over another gate of Heaven lssachar. oyer
another Dan. over anotheS Cad, over another
Zebulon, over another Judah, and so on. But
Christs name is written over all the gates,
and on every panel of the gates; and have
His help, His pardon, His intercesSion, His
atonement, | must, or be torlorn wretch
forever. My Lord and my Godl make me
and all who hear me this day, and all to
whom these words shall come, thy Te-
pentant, believing, sworn, consecrated and
rausomed followers forever.
What day it will be! This entire assem-
blage would rise to your feet ii you could
realize it, the day in which Christ shall in
fulfllment of my text divide the spoil, 1t
was great day when Queen Victoria, in the
midst of the Crlmean war, distributed mel
ais to the soldiers who hal come home sick
and wounded. At the Horse Guards, in pres
ence of the Royal Family, the injured men
were carried in or came on crut heS-Coionel
Trowbridge, who lost both feet at Inkerman,
and Captain Sayer, who had the ankle
Joint of his right leg shot of at Alma; and
Captain Cure, his disabled limb supported
by q soldier, and Others manned, and distig.
urel, and exhausted-and with her own hand
the Queen gave each the Crimean medal
And what triumphant days for those soldiers
when, further on, they received t1e French
medal with the imperial eagle, and the Turk
ish medal with its representation of four
hags-France, Turkey, England and Sardi-
nia-and beneath it a map of the Crimea
spread over a gun wheel
And what rewards are suggested to all
readers of history by the mere mention Of
the Waterloo medal, and the Cape medal,
and the Gold Cross medal, and the medals
struck for bravery in our Ameri an wars
the day when the good soldiers Of Jesus
Christ shall come in out of the battles of this
world and in the presence of all the piled up
galleries of the redeem I'd and the
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anne back from his victories. In the
ront of the procession were wild beasts
from all lands, sixteen hundred gladiators
richly clad, wagon loads of crowns and
trophies presented by conquered cltles;
among the captives SyrianS, Egyptians
Goths, Vandals, Sarmatians, Franks; and
Zenobta, the beautiful captive queen, on loot
in chains of gold that slave had to help her
carry, and jewels under the weight OF whlch
she almost tainted. And then came the
chariot of Aurelian drawn by four elephants
in gorgeous caparison aud followed
by the Roman, Senate aud the Roman army
aud from dawn till dark the procession was
passing Rome in all her history never saw
anything more magnificent. But how much
greater the day when our Conqueror,, Jesus;
Shall ride under the triumphal arches OF
heaven; His captives, not on foot, but IL
chariots all the kingdoms OF earth and heaven
in procession; the armies celestial on white
horses. Runbliug artillery of thunderbolts
never again to be unlimbered. Kingdoms in
line, centuries in line, sanity, cheruolc
ssraphic, archangelic splendors in line, anc
Christ seated on one great rolling Hosanna
made out of all Halleluiahs OF all worlds,
shall cry halt to the procession. And moi
FORGETTING even the humblest in all the reach
of His omnfpressnce, He shall rise, and then
and there His work done aud His glory, con
sumated, proceed, amid an ecstasy such as
neither mortal nor immortal ever imagined,
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